a couple years ago, i started cooking my garlic in the sauce - marinara, chili, tacos, soups, whatever. basically, whenever i add the liquid or sauce component, i throw in a couple peeled cloves and let them simmer for however long. just before i’m ready to serve, i fish them out and put them in a garlic press, where…

you might be pleasantly surprised - i have a friend who works third-shift for a firm that reviews legal documents and he got asked to join a Munchkin campaign that plays during their (extended)3AM lunch breaks.

just to second the suggestion for Roll20 - i started a game with friends from my hometown who’re spread across the country and we’ve been getting together online once a month for five years now. the online tabletop is pretty much everything we used to talk about 25 years ago when playing over winter break during…

i grew up in Wisconsin and moved here to West Virginia about 15 years ago. we live in a valley, so antenna tv is a crapshoot. a couple weeks after moving here, i walked down the street to a local bar to see if i could catch the Packers game on Monday night. it was a fucking disaster, not least of which because there…

i mean, see how this works out, dude. maybe you’re getting some hot press from MAGA chuds now but, knowing your attitude, i would never buy one of your idiot-cookies. i guess you can let the market decide - that’s capitalism, right? just don’t come crying to us when if and when your business takes a nosedive...…

i don’t think Marvel or DC HAVE tried “extra hard” to sell comics to kids, tho - they’ve been content to just keep doing what’s always worked, which [as you note!] is double-down on selling to the hardcore adult addicts.

remember that Simpson’s scene where Milhouse runs into the backpack kid with the same name and sobs “This is what it feels like when doves cry!”?

John Carpenter’s THE THING - hands down. I’ve owned it on VHS, DVD and now Blu-Ray... and, about 15 years ago, I came this close to buying a laser disk player on e-Bay for this movie (and Blade Runner). I watch it on snow days, I watch it when its too hot outside, I watch it when I’m sick. I put it on at night to fall…

this. i don’t understand why marvel and DC aren’t putting together $10 phonebook size collections of every character/team with a movie and selling them in every Wal-Mart and grocery store check out aisle, not to mention 7-11s and gas stations, especially the ones on interstates where parents could toss them to their…

i’m thinking about making the NYT recipe for rye pretzels, if the store has rye flour - Snyder’s used to sell big boxes of pumpernickel pretzels that i was addicted to, so this would be a real treat warm from the oven and with some nice brown mustard-seed heavy dipping sauce.

Or that asshole on The Sopranos.

the only reason i ever heard was something about how they’d cut the budget for snow removal year after year because they’d been having a couple years in a row of not much snow, so when they finally had a big blow after years of mild winters, they didn’t have any money budgeted for the work later in the season after a…

I dunno. I lived in Ashland (north central Ohio) for a winter about 10 years ago and they had a snowstorm that dumped about two feet of snow overnight... and they didn’t plow the streets for three damn days. The whole city just shut down, although my boss expected us to walk to work (prick).

but, wait - i thought small government and hiring private businesses to do The Work Of Government would lead to all kinds of cost savings over the bloated federal bureaucracy?!

thanks for this and the other replies - turns out, the library DVDs WERE mislabeled, which means i wound up watching the last disc first. i mentioned it to the librarian when i was there today for some other stuff and she grimaced and asked if it was from a certain library, which it was - apparently, it’s a recurring…

pretty much anything by P.M.Dawn - they’re awesome and never really got the respect they deserve, so there’s basically like five albums (one unreleased except to their fan club) worth of great stuff in their back catalog. and that doesn’t even include the stuff they contributed to various motion picture soundtracks…

you could always AirBNB it as a vacation rental, right?

nope - this argument is bullshit. it’s almost impossible for anyone to get a job in journalism without a college degree these days and my guess is that most of the GMG jobs are located in big cities where cost of living is higher than normal. the first return from google on GMG’s finances are a couple years out of…

i’ve been watching the show on DVDs from the library for the last week and i’m wondering if the discs are mislabeled or something because it seemed like there were a bunch of storylines/characters in Season 2 (Holt being promoted to Public Affairs, Diaz and Marcus) that were just completely ignored in Season 3 - Diaz…

“Duet” was in DS9's first season.